Anyone
reading this is likely to know that George Monbiot is an
internationally famous environmental, anti globalisation and anti
capitalist campaigner. He is also a journalist and
author.
His Guardian articles show a consistent anti free market
stance with a strong bias toward returning the
planet
to a more natural, primitive state.

The
argument put forward here is that , rather than being a Guardian style
progressive,
Monbiot is actually an elitist, ruling class, ultra
conservative pushing a deeply regressive agenda. Very much like the elite Club of Rome which published "Limits to Growth".

Monbiot
launched a sustained attack on economic growth in this article.
There are 70 references to growth, almost all negative.

The
recession Monbiot wanted happened and as any honest commentator would
have forecast, it had a devastating effect on the poor and
massively increased inequality. Monbiot isn't just oppposed to
growth, he has a fundamental issue with progress itself as we shall see
later.

Monbiot's mentor at Oxford ,Sir
Crispin Tickell is an extreme right wing eugenecist, was Margaret Thatcher's
ambassador to the UN, her global warming adviser and
member of the famous eugenics Huxley family .

Sir Crispin Tickell

Sir
Crispin was President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1990 to
1993 and Warden of Green College, Oxford between 1990 and 1997, where
he appointed George Monbiot and Norman Myers as Visiting Fellows.

He is also a patron of theOptimum Population Trust, and told Radio 4's Today programme that the ideal population for Britain could be around 20 million.
As a member of Lord Rogers' Urban Task Force, Tickell counselled
against spreading cities saying that we need denser living, that young
adults should not expect to leave home straight away, and that older
relatives could live in 'granny flats

"George clearly represents the more radical
wing," says Sir Crispin Tickell, Warden of Green College and a
prominent establishment environmentalist. "But he's a very articulate
person... George and I go on expeditions looking for fossils together."

Here is an excellent article from the British Guardian newspaper on the
role of the
ruling
classes in the Green movement.

Blue-blooded and green
- It's no coincidence that many leading greens are privileged: the
upper classes have long harboured a fear and loathing of modern
society...

"So, the handbook tells us that we should live in
small houses rather than McMansions; we should switch off our central
heating and wear jumpers to keep ourselves warm; and we should avoid
travelling by plane or car and ride a bike instead"

Who
wrote this call for individual austerity? None other than David de
Rothschild, a member of the mind-blowingly wealthy Rothschild banking
family and heir to a rather spectacular fortune.

It is a campaign not for
abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but
for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other
people, but against ourselves

George Monbiot, Heat, London, Allen Lane, 2006, p. 215

There
is no suggestion that George Monbiot supports or has
ever supported
the
policies of any right wing political party,
present or past. Merely that he shares a similar
underlying
back to nature, anti progress, ultra conservative philosophy.
Godwins Law is not being flouted here.

There is no hidden or implied support for those who Monbiot
most directs his bile, free market extremists such
as the the
Heritage Foundation, Koch Brothers, Fox or the
capitalist right in
general. Including the GWPF.